This piece is very good cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...

He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.

Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be…

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We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · last mo.

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

Now that the rich and powerful people are calling for open-weights models, it's time to pressure them to be legitimately brave and back open-corpus models.

Marco Z@ocramz.bsky.social · last mo.

jensen one of us, let's bring him over on bsky xcancel.com/i/status/208...

5/ Experts point to several factors for why it came back: 1️⃣Cattle smuggling outside control zones 2️⃣In early 2025, roughly 15,000 USDA positions were eliminated, and a USAID-funded monitoring project was terminated 3️⃣ The loss of specialized expertise as generations of entomologists retire

Great to chat to @sanmayd.bsky.social, @aaai.org Fellow and AIhub trustee, about his work on multiagent systems for social good, how he chooses research problems, and what the future holds for research in this space aihub.org/2026/06/04/i...

Interview with AAAI Fellow Sanmay Das: multiagent systems - ΑΙhub

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I finally subscribed to The Guardian last fall, and reading @barneyronay.bsky.social this season has, for the first time in years, given me major "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" John Updike vibes. Genuinely brilliant sportswriting.

Barney Ronay@barneyronay.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Springtime for Eze and Arsenal www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Joe Halpern played a huge role in creating the CoRR and later integrating it with @arxiv.bsky.social. He chaired the CS section from 1998 until 2023, and he was active as a moderator until just a few weeks ago. Thank you, Joe, for promoting open science!

Tobias Gerstenberg@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm very sad to have learned today that Joe Halpern passed away. Joe was a giant who knew no scientific boundaries. He loved science with a contagious, child-like enthusiasm. He was wonderful and I'm so grateful that I got to learn from him. Thank you Joe 🙏 www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...

Every time someone tries to fuck with COBOL the world breaks.

🚨 Live Stock Market News@tradersclub.bsky.social · 6mo ago

IBM stock, $IBM, falls over -10% after Anthropic announces that Claude can streamline COBOL code.

Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/

My 2 cents about The Atlantic’s Mellon Foundation polemic and humanities funding: Beyond its specious content, the article illustrates something truly dangerous: the normalization of conspiratorial tropes about externally funded research in universities originally seen in extremist propaganda. 1/5

It’s worth reading the op-ed Zoë Hitzig wrote about the AI advertising landscape. Very thoughtful and informative

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 7mo ago

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Warns Its Unprecedented 'Archive of Human Candor' Is Dangerous

Prediction and prioritization for allocating societal resources - @sanmayd.bsky.social - highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwXu... Impact of capacity constraints on RCT evaluation - @hannahli.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuwB... (3/9)

On Machine Learning for Prediction and Prioritization in the Allocation of Scarce Societal Resources

YouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 10mo ago

Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is. Very proud of my pal’s public work. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion

After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Corgi Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · 11mo ago

Wow. Just wow. "Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

Friday night: the time when parents across this nation check to make sure that the correct color of jersey is clean and nobody lost a shin guard

This is good satire: alignmentalignment.ai

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

"You’ll also want to download SportsYouth to communicate with the parents of team members. Many of the games require your child to arrive at 4:30 p.m., even though you need to work until 5 p.m."

All the Apps You Need to Keep Up with Your Child’s Youth Baseball Team This Summer

Dear parents, We are thrilled to have your child on our summer baseball team. We have a few apps we use to help keep things organized around here, ...

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Thoughtful take on one aspect of the increasing problem of LLMs leading to “centralization” of thought/writing/etc.

Bryan Wilder@brwilder.bsky.social · last yr.

Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research. bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...

I think at least @profwinikoff.bsky.social is on your side! I, like a good game theorist, randomize

Marc Lanctot@sharky6000.bsky.social · last yr.

@sanmayd.bsky.social at @aamasconf.bsky.social opening ceremonies asking the important questions. Is it pronounced "Ay-MAS" or "Ah-MAS"? I've always said Ay-MAS but I am already outvoted by both Michael Wellman and Eugene Vorobeychik! 😱😱😱 Discuss!

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lets-...

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities

This is largely preaching to the choir. But it’s absent enough from...

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Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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If a non-citizen has no right to contest their removal because the government claims that they’re in a Venezuelan gang, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *we’re* in a Venezuelan gang? That’s the most elementary reason why due process matters: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law

Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.

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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.